NOTHING CHANGES | e. mikaelson

21

New Orleans, 1919

Arabella walked into the Opera House, only to be met with utter destruction. She saw Marcel staked to the wall on the stage, sweating and groaning in pain as Klaus tried to pull them from his hands, but Mikael stopped him, then Rebekah came and Mikael pushed her to the ground and staked her through the stomach

Arabella ran to help but then Elijah showed up and tried to save Marcel then turned to Klaus just as Arabella walked up the help him, "There's no helping Marcel"

Arabella ripped her head round to look at her husband "What are you talking about, we have to save him!"

Elijah grabbed her hand and pulled her away "We must run"

Elijah pulls her away as Klaus scoops Rebekah up in his arms and they all leave together as Mikael feeds from Marcel. Afterward he picks up a lantern from the stage and walks up towards the exit past the audience, who were all compelled to sit still and not leave, Mikael smashes the lantern onto the ground, cause the floor to catch fire, which quickly spreads throughout the prier house with Marcel left to burn

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Elijah, Arabella and Klaus were all running, an unconscious Rebekah in Klaus' arms, they stopped as Mikael was getting closer

"The final act of Le Grand Guignol is upon us! Where are my player? Enough running, children! Step out of the shadows so we can finish this tale of sorrows" They heard Mikael shout from a distance

"He's coming" Elijah says, still keeping a firm grip on Arabella's hand, he grabs a metal stake from someone's fence while Klaus sets Rebekah down and bits into his wrist and feed her his blood to wake her up

"Come one, sister" she opens her eyes and looks around, not seeing the one she was looking for she mutters

"Marcel"

"He's gone, sister" Elijah tells her, sadly

She looks behind them to see the Opera house in flames, screams are heard from the audience who were trapped inside as they slowly burned to death

She begins to cry "No, no"

Arabella is quick to hug her, gently rubbing her back to comfort her "It's okay" she whispers

Elijah looks at the three of them, then says "All of you must flee the city" he then looks at Klaus "I'll hold him off, Niklaus"

Hearing this, Arabella pulls away from her sister and looks at him "No, you can't fight him by yourself"

"Arabella's right, we fight him together" Klaus argues

"We cannot fight him. All we can do is what we've done. We deceive him. We lead him astray. Now, I can do that as well as anyone" he looks his brother in the eyes "You take both of them far away from here. I'll follow you"

Arabella continuously shakes her head, tears threatening to fall from her eyes "No Elijah you can't do this, you can't leave us" Elijah looks at her, a soft expression on his face as he looks at the pained look on her face "You can't leave me"

He cups her face, quickly sipping away a tear that she hadn't released fell, and kissed her head "You have to go with Niklaus" he told her "Go with him. I'll come back to you, I give you my word, I will find you and I will never leave you again" they stared at each other, not saying anything for a second as Arabella composes herself "Okay?"

She nods and whispers "Okay"

He leans in and places a soft kiss on her lips, this kiss seemed different, it wasn't a 'see you later' kiss, it was more of a 'goodbye' kiss, and Arabella didn't like it, not one bit